Naval Group's FDI Belharra frigate handicapped by VLS Sylver in Greece

The renewal of the Greek frigate fleet, for which Naval Group is proposing the FDI frigate, is today one of the main and most important contracts being awarded on the European and international scene concerning surface combatants.

With an objective of acquiring 4 ships, the modernization of its 4 mek 200 HN and the desire to acquire or lease two frigates within a very short time frame to respond to immediate security challenges in the Aegean Sea, Athens is attracting the desire of both European and American manufacturers.

In this competition, Naval Group FDI Belharra until recently had a head start on its competitors, since Paris and Athens had signed a letter of engagement for the acquisition of two of these ships 18 months ago. But today, this competition has taken on a whole new and much more open dimension, and the FDI, although very efficient, will have to fight hard to place itself against its European competitors.

4 FDI frigate with 4 SYLVER 50 VLS offered by Naval Group to the Hellenic Navy

As always, information from French industries comes in trickles and more through Greece than through the French manufacturers themselves.

But according toinformation collected by our Hellenic colleagues, the French offer is based on 4 FDI armed with 4 VLS Sylver 50 capable of implementing 32 anti-aircraft missiles Aster 15/30 et MICA VL NG, as well as 8 MM40 Exocet anti-ship missiles, a Strales 76mm cannon, a CIWS RAM system and a complete anti-submarine warfare suite with Kingklip hull sonar and CAPTAS-4 towed sonar. The radar is none other than Thales's high-performance SeaFire, an EASA plate radar unmatched in Europe.

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